I’m so old I remember…

[luv2custrip]

Milk men.

 

[Crownvic]

The coal bin in my grand parents house..in the basement ..for the old gravity feed furnace...

 

[Strixaluco]

Libraries are not all the same these days. I found one in Middleburg VA, National Sporting Library & Museum. Angling, horsemanship, shooting, steeplechasing, foxhunting, flat racing, polo, coaching, and wildlife are among the tombs and the art is cool too. Research done by Teddy Roosevelt is archived there. Some books you can pull off the shelf are so old I really felt they should be handled by someone else. The environment so controlled it was not easy to get to the memories you have. But a privilege to be among books that were really written. Not sure how they printed back then.

Libraries like that are rare - but they still exist.

Around here most libraries are of those with at least relatively modern books. Leant and read constantly. The one closest to me has a very high lending rate, you usually need to make a reservation to read any series in the right to finish. The 2nd closest is a university library, but technical stuff tends to focus on the more recent material, not ancient ones (and there's not enough ancient material for all of them).

 

[likitisplit]

F Troop

i'm so old i knew the dead sea when it was sick.

 

[latecomer91364]

I'm so old I remember when NBC became the first all-color network (1966)

 

[saintcero]

The near daily announcement on TV news that Francisco Franco had not died yet

 

[ouchfeelsgood]

I'm so old I remember a milk vending machine in the basement of the apartment building grew up in. The milk was dispensed in quart containers and always fresh because it was restocked every few days. The main downside was that half the containers leaked!

 

[zoso682001]

I remember Captain Kangaroo

wasn't there some kind of giant teddy bear too ?

 

[AvgGuy01]

I remember going into a Burger King and watching the burger patty you order going through a real grill behind the counter

 

[AvgGuy01]

Struggling to stay awake to watch the first moon landing aired on our black and white TV

 

[AvgGuy01]

Libraries are not all the same these days. I found one in Middleburg VA, National Sporting Library & Museum. Angling, horsemanship, shooting, steeplechasing, foxhunting, flat racing, polo, coaching, and wildlife are among the tombs and the art is cool too. Research done by Teddy Roosevelt is archived there. Some books you can pull off the shelf are so old I really felt they should be handled by someone else. The environment so controlled it was not easy to get to the memories you have. But a privilege to be among books that were really written. Not sure how they printed back then.
I have to mention Mars Bars here. Since they are still around and so it all the other candy. I was trying to name all the candy and ask the kid if she knew what they were or Mars as a family or company. No idea. Skittles. But I don't know who makes them. Anyway, endowment for the museum^.
Ink. Remember the purple stuff you had to sniff before you took the pop test? [Mimeograph]
I also remember most wrong answers were because the teachers called their scribble cursive.

Cursive is an old timers secret code these days

 

[Crownvic]

Jon Nagy...learn to draw..

 

[PersonalFavors]

wasn't there some kind of giant teddy bear too ?

I was trying to remember the rabbits name without looking it up.

 

[Gamine67]

ISOIR cable TV was $3 a month and we got the mysterious UHF stations only people with ‘new’ TV’s could see.

 

[PersonalFavors]

ISOIR cable TV was $3 a month and we got the mysterious UHF stations only people with ‘new’ TV’s could see.

What year was that? CATV was used in rural PA mountains for a while. But actual cable TV and station aggregation was an inventive hotel operator at the Jersey Shore. Collecting stations by antenna and distributing to the rooms. Coax cable was perfected and distributed by township after that. Prior to that "Cable" was channels where mountains were in the way and carried by wire -300ohm- then amplified and distributed by antenna.
Those guys are flipping in their grave these days witnessing the greed of streaming. The death of TV. No more flipping through the channels.

 

[fakingadulthood]

When going online meant your modem would make more abrasive sounds than the ark of the covenant did in raiders of the lost ark

 

[AvgGuy01]

TV stations signing off at midnight playing the National Anthem

 

[Strixaluco]

When on line meant on the phone, not Internet.

 

[PicassosPleasure]

I grew up with rotary phones. So when I'm on those "Poster Above" threads, I'm not as fast at typing like those who grew up with a cell phone in their crib. I often miss being the next poster when I post my reply. Ugh!

 

[ydahecnot]

When the game on The Price Is Right was Hole in One, not Hole in One…or Two

 

[mickyp123]

Bronco Lane
Cheyanne
Rawhide
Wagon train
Gunsmoke
Laramie
Bonanza
Laramie
Laredo
Tenderfoot (Sugarfoot)
Cimmeron strip
Wells Fargo

Guess I grode up on westerns and i aint shot no one yet

 

[ydahecnot]

Bronco Lane
Cheyanne
Rawhide
Wagon train
Gunsmoke
Laramie
Bonanza
Laramie
Laredo
Tenderfoot (Sugarfoot)
Cimmeron strip
Wells Fargo

Guess I grode up on westerns and i aint shot no one yet

You must have really liked Laramie

 

[mickyp123]

You must have really liked Laramie

John Smith, Robert Fuller, Dennis Holmes and Spring Barlington, im sad to remember that lol

 

[TunnelKing089]

Waiting impatiently for the newspaper to come so I could see/read it and all the boxscores from the ballgames.Ah the good ol days.

 

[ydahecnot]

John Smith, Robert Fuller, Dennis Holmes and Spring Barlington, im sad to remember that lol

Spring Barlington is my new favorite porn star name